19850704 Caitanya-caritāmṛta Ādi-līlā 1.4-55

19850704 CAITANYA CARITAMRITA ADI LĪLĀ 1.4-55 APPEARANCE OF ŚRĪ CAITANYA MAHĀPRABHU, GOLCCHA HALL, KATHMANDU.

His Holiness Jayapatākā Swami (Recites the verses; reads the translation with devotee translating it into Nepali language)

CC Adi 1.4 Translation:

 

 

Resplendent with the radiance of molten gold, He has appeared in the age of Kali by His causeless mercy to bestow what no other incarnation ever offered before. The most sublime and radiant spiritual knowledge of the mellow taste of His service.

Caitanya Caritāmṛta 1.5

 

rādhā kṛṣṇa-praṇaya-vikṛtir hlādinī śaktir asmād

ekātmānāv api bhuvi purā deha-bhedaṁ gatau tau

caitanyākhyaṁ prakaṭam adhunā tad-dvayaṁ caikyam āptaṁ

rādhā-bhāva-dyuti-suvalitaṁ naumi kṛṣṇa-svarūpam

Translation:

The loving affairs of Śrī Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa are transcendental manifestations of the Lord’s internal pleasure-giving potency. Although Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa are one in Their identity, previously They separated Themselves. Now these two transcendental identities have again united, in the form of Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya. I bow down to Him, who has manifested Himself with the sentiment and complexion of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī although He is Kṛṣṇa Himself.

His Holiness Jayapatākā Swami (comments): Ahlādinī Shakti, Anandaka Shakti. Krsnadas Kavirāj in Vṛndāvan.This is the great history of Caitanya Mahāprabhu.

CC Adi 1.2                                         vande śrī-kṛṣṇa-caitanya-

nityānandau sahoditau

gauḍodaye puṣpavantau

citrau śan-dau tamo-nudau

Translation:

I offer my respectful obeisances unto Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya and Lord Nityānanda who are like the sun and the moon. They have arisen simultaneously on the horizon of Gauḍa to dissipate the darkness of ignorance and thus wonderfully bestow benediction upon all.

His Holiness Jayapatākā Swami (comments): In the Vedas, it describes that North India is known as Gauḍa and South India is known as Draviḍa. Gauḍa means up to the Himalayas. Five ancient states are there in Gaudadesh. This is including from Gujarat to Nepal, to right - Mithilā and on the east - Bangla. And the eastern horizon of Gauḍa, the eastern portion that is Bang. So Lord Caitanya, He appeared on the east just like the sun and moon appear in the east. So that They have appeared in the east, this is to indicate that just like the sun and the moon come, They have come to take away all the darkness of the world.

So in every incarnation of Godhead is predicted in the Vedic literature, it is mentioned in the Vedas. Without being mentioned no one can be accepted as an incarnation of Godhead or avatar. Avatar means that from the spiritual world, the Lord Himself comes

 

in order to give benediction to the people in the material world, as well as to sometimes perform Their own pastimes. Just as Kṛṣṇa describes in the Bhagavad-gītā:

paritranaya sadhunam

vinasaya ca duskrtam

Dharma-samsthapanarthaya

sambhavami yuge yuge (BG 4.8)

 

 That I come in every millennium to deliver My devotees and to annihilate the miscreants and to establish real religious principles.

So similarly, when we state, all these great gurus and ācāryas have stated that Caitanya Mahāprabhu is an avatar of Kṛṣṇa. There must be some reason why they are saying that. One thing was that Prahlad Maharaj in the Bhāgavatam, he stated that in Kali yuga, he stated that the Lord is known as triyuga because He appears only in Satya, Tretha and Dvāpara yugas.

 

 

ittham nri-tiryag-rishi-deva-jhashavatarair

lokan vibhavayasi hamsi jagat-pratipan

dharmam maha-purusha pasi yuganuvrittam

channah kalau yad abhavas tri-yugo 'tha sa tvam (SB 7.9.38)

“My Lord you kill all the enemies of the world in Your multifarious incarnations in the families of men, animals, demigods, rishis, aquatics and other forms. Thus You illuminate the world with transcendental knowledge. In the age of Kali, oh Mahapurusha, You sometimes appear in a covered incarnation. Therefore, You are known as triyuga, one who appears only in triyuga.”

So here Prahlad Maharaj predicted because he was in previous yuga, that in kali yuga Kṛṣṇa comes but in a covered avatar; He comes in disguise as an actor. We know that in this age the yuga dharma is to chant the holy names of Kṛṣṇa.

 

kṛte yad dhyāyato viṣṇuṁ

tretāyāṁ yajato makhaiḥ

dvāpare paricaryāyāṁ

kalau tad dhari-kīrtanāt (SB 12.3.52)

 

That in kali yuga we chant Hari kīrtana, the holy names of Kṛṣṇa, Hari. So in the Bhāgavatam Mahāpurāṇa, it predicted that Kṛṣṇa will come in a non-blackish color to spread this yuga dharma of the chanting of Kṛṣṇa saṅkīrtanam.

kṛṣṇa-varṇaṁ tviṣākṛṣṇaṁ

sāṅgopāṅgāstra-pārṣadam

yajñaiḥ saṅkīrtana-prāyair

yajanti hi su-medhasaḥ (SB 11.5.32)

 

The Bhagavat Purana is however not the only Vedic literature to predict this coming of the Lord. In the Caitanya Upanishad there is also a prediction.

 gauraḥ sarvātmā mahā-puruṣo mahātmā mahā-yogī tri-guṇātītaḥ sattva-rūpo bhaktiṁ loke kāśyati. (Caitanya Upanishad 5)

“Lord Gaura who is the all-pervading Supersoul, the Supreme Personality of Godhead appears as a great saint and powerful mystic. He is above the three modes of material nature and He is the emblem of transcendental activity. He disseminates the cult of devotion throughout the world. “

Here it is predicted loke kasyati – loke means throughout the planet. It was predicted that Lord Caitanya’s movement would go throughout the entire world. In the Svetasvatara Upanishad there are also predictions:

mahān prabhur vai puruṣaḥ sattvasyaiṣa pravartakaḥ

su-nirmalām imāṁ prāptim īśāno jyotir avyayaḥ

(Śvetāśvatara Upaniṣad  3.12)

“The Supreme Personality of Godhead is Mahāprabhu who disseminates transcendental enlightenment. Just to be in touch with Him is to be in contact with the indestructible brahmajyoti. “

So there are many Vedic references that the Lord comes in Kali yuga in golden color and that He spreads bhakti; He spreads sankirtan. That He comes not as the Supreme Lord like Rāma or Kṛṣṇa did with Their full opulence, but He came directly as a saint, as a sādhu, as a devotee. It is important to understand that since these are general predictions, then someone may say that how do we know that specifically Lord Caitanya is fulfilling those predictions? Maybe there was someone else who also had similar features? Of course up to now we don’t find any other similar personality who specifically taught the Śrīmad Bhāgavatam, pure bhakti and who spread Harinām sankirtan all over the Southern Asia. Apart from that, there are some specific predictions which mention that in Kali yuga the Lord will come as the son of mother Sachi.

In the Vāyu Purāṇa it mentions – kalau saṅkīrtanārambhe bhaviṣyāmi śacī-sutaḥ.

 “In the age of Kali when the sankirtan movement is inaugurated, I shall descend as the son of Sachi devī.”

In the Kṛṣṇa Yamala it states puṇya-kṣetre nava-dvīpe bhaviṣyāmi śacī-sutaḥ.  “I shall appear in the holy land of Navadvīpa as the son of Śacī devī. “

 

So just as it was predicted that Kṛṣṇa would come as the eighth son of Devakī, it was also predicted in the Vedas that Kṛṣṇa will come as a devotee, in the form of a devotee, as the son of Mother Sachi.

I know that all these quotations and everything they may be a bit lengthy, but I am just trying to present it in a very systematic way so that you can have the full reference. Because I know many of you may not be acquainted with the Vedic background of Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Caitanya Mahāprabhu is more than a saint. He is actually a secret incarnation of Kṛṣṇa which was predicted by all of the Vedic literatures. He came here amongst all of us and He left, and while He was here He kept His personality covered. Only after He left was it revealed that actually what was to all, what was His real purpose. So there are so many other quotes from Muṇḍaka Upanishad, from the Brahmā Yamala, Ananta Saṁhitā. There are so many other various quotations which are predicting the coming of the Lord in this form.

Lord Buddha is also an incarnation in a covered form, but He is a saktyavesh avatar; He is a partial incarnation. He is known as shaktyavesh avatar. That is mentioned in different purāṇas, and all Vedic scholars accept that Lord Buddha is one of the ten avatars or one of the avatars.

 In the Ananta Saṁhitā, there the Lord’s secret mission for coming is mentioned.

 

 

ya eva bhagavān kṛṣṇo rādhikā-prāṇa-vallabhaḥ

sṛṣṭy ādau sa jagan-nātho gaura āsīn maheśvari

“The Supreme Person Śrī Kṛṣṇa Himself who is the life of Śrī Rādhārāṇī is the Lord of the universe in creation, maintenance and annihilation, He appears as Gaura, oh Maheshwari.”

So Caitanya Mahāprabhu, He Himself didn’t write any volumes of books. Rather He only wrote eight verses known as Siksashtakam. Although He was known as the greatest pandit in India in this part of Asia, then. Rather He told everyone that they should daily read the Śrīmad Bhāgavatam. He glorified the Bhāgavatam as the spotless Purāṇa as especially suited and necessary to be read in this age of Kali.

 The second verse of the Śrīmad Bhāgavatam explains the purpose of the Bhāgavatam. “The great scripture Śrīmad Bhāgavatam compiled by Mahāmuni Vyāsadeva from the four original verses describes the most elevated and kindhearted devotees and completely rejects the cheating ways of materially motivated religiosity. It propounds the highest principle of eternal religion, which can factually mitigate the threefold miseries of the living being. And award the highest benediction of full prosperity and knowledge. Those willing to hear the message of this scripture in a submissive attitude of service can at once capture the Supreme Lord in their hearts. Therefore, there is no need for any scripture other than Śrīmad Bhāgavatam.”

 

dharmaḥ projjhita-kaitavo 'tra paramo nirmatsarāṇāṁ satāṁ

vedyaṁ vāstavam atra vastu śivadaṁ tāpa-trayonmūlanam

śrīmad-bhāgavate mahā-muni-kṛte kiṁ vā parair īśvaraḥ

sadyo hṛdy avarudhyate 'tra kṛtibhiḥ śuśrūṣubhis tat-kṣaṇāt (SB 1.1.2)

 

Actually the Śrīmad Bhāgavatam, in one of the first verses also mentions that the Śrīmad Bhāgavatam is intended to create a revolution in the materialistic lives of the conditioned souls. That the Śrīmad Bhāgavatam is establishing the eternal religious principles in a world where everyone is acting only for temporary purposes. Śrīmad Bhāgavatam is challenging all the other scriptures. They are saying dharma, artha, kaama, moksha are all cheating. Such a heavy challenge Śrīmad Bhāgavatam is giving to the other scriptures. They are saying that religion for fruitive activity, that accumulation of economic development as well as sense gratification and even liberation are all ultimately to be rejected as part of the material world. That these are not transcendental. That Śrīmad Bhāgavatam is establishing that real eternal principle of Bhagavat dharma - is actually to engage in the direct service of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Spontaneous loving service to the Supreme Lord, that is the eternal religious principle.

For instance, another verse in the Śrīmad Bhāgavatam states that if one practices religion but doesn’t develop pure love for God, then what is the use of that religion? It is simply a useless waste of time. If you just do the rituals but ultimately you don’t become situated in transcendental consciousness, the Śrīmad Bhāgavatam is saying śrama eva hi kevalam, you are simply expending energy. So that is the nature of pure bhakti, that it is self-effulgent; it is not depending upon any other process.

 

 

 dharmaḥ svanuṣṭhitaḥ puṁsāṁ viṣvaksena-kathāsu yaḥ

notpādayed yadi ratiṁ śrama eva hi kevalam (SB 1.2.8)

 

sa vai puṁsāṁ paro dharmo

yato bhaktir adhokṣaje

ahaituky apratihatā

yayātmā suprasīdati (SB 1.2.6)

 

 Now it is saying that if you have the patience to go through the twelve cantos of the Śrīmad Bhāgavatam, verse by verse, reading the purports by Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupad, you can see how systematic the subject is explained. Śrīmad Bhāgavatam very clearly establishes that there are two types of religion – materially mixed religion and pure spiritual religion.

 In material religion there are unlimited varieties and shades of religion. But you come to transcendental religion, there is one kind. So if the world is to be united, one religion in the entire world, it has to only be understandable of transcendental religious principles. So Kṛṣṇa Caitanya Mahāprabhu, He only taught purely transcendental spiritual or religious principles. As mentioned in the various Vedic verses, He had an external and an internal purpose for coming down into this world.  His external purpose was to spread this bhakti and the chanting of Hare Kṛṣṇa in the world.

 

 

As I mentioned before that this chanting is the most effective means of self-realization recommended for this age. Not that other processes are not good, religion by definition is good. But the question is that if we have a shortage of time and in that short period of time what is the best thing that you can do? Just like for instance, everyone knows that people should graduate from their university and then they should enter into the business field. That is the normal tradition. To give a material example, the General Managing Director and Chairman of the  Microsoft computer corporation, he left his university and he immediately started his company. He didn’t get his degree. And now his company is making a profit of 50 million dollars a year or about 75 crore Nepali rupees.

So sometimes there may be a short cut. What is the need of him having a degree if he can already make his, I mean materially speaking, make his fortune without the degree? You see for other yugas there is plenty of time, Kali yuga time is very short. We only live maximum 100 years, according to the Vedas. The Vedas say that as Kali yuga goes on that 100 years will gradually reduce to 30 years. So now insurance companies say that the average life expectancy is somewhere between 60 and 70 years. So already half the figure has come down.

 So in this short period of time we need very condensed spiritual practices. Therefore, this Harinaam sankirtan process is given – this is very concentrated. Therefore, the process of pure bhakti is given because that is very condensed. Other processes of religion are good but they are slow. Either they are slow, or they are  leading to a non-spiritual objective. So that means it is a roundabout way. It is good, but it is not the need in this Kali yuga. We need something more powerful. Just like the mosquitos of Kali yuga,  they are developing immunity towards all types of poisons. They have to invent newer and newer medicines to counteract malaria because the mosquitos are developing immunity. So you can take that dharma is like a medicine to cure our sinful life which is like a disease to eradicate all the bad karmas. But we have developed immunity for dharma. Our sinful mentality, our materialistic mentality is so strong that the ordinary dharma, that medicine is not strong enough, we have developed immunity; it doesn’t change our consciousness. In spite of going to temple, in spite of doing so many different rituals, still material desires are always disturbing the consciousness. Therefore, we need a very strong spiritual medicine which can counteract our hard mentality, our immunity towards becoming purified.

Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu has brought that process into the forefront. He has popularized it, that is the process of Śrī Kṛṣṇa saṅkīrtanam, chanting congregationally the names of Kṛṣṇa. Lord Caitanya’s formula was very simple. He said exactly the same thing that Bhagavat is saying exactly the same thing the Vedas are saying. He said, bolo Kṛṣṇa, you chant the name of Kṛṣṇa. He said bhajo Kṛṣṇa,  you worship Kṛṣṇa, be His devotee, bhajo Kṛṣṇa, you worship Kṛṣṇa. Koro Kṛṣṇa Shiksha, and you study the teachings of Kṛṣṇa.

There are two books which are teachings of Kṛṣṇa. One is Bhagavad Gītā which is spoken by Kṛṣṇa Himself which is accepted by all the acharyas all over Nepal and India as the essence of Vedic wisdom, and even Śaṅkarācārya has accepted that the Bhagavad Gītā is the cream of the Vedic culture. So this is one of the teachings of Kṛṣṇa. It is spoken by Kṛṣṇa, so it is also a teaching of Kṛṣṇa.

The Śrīmad Bhāgavatam is also Kṛṣṇa’s shiksha because it is spoken about Kṛṣṇa. So this is a very simple process given by Lord Caitanya. Śrīmad Bhāgavatam says you don’t need any other scripture. As it is Śrīmad Bhāgavatam is 18,000 verses. How many people in India and Nepal have read the Śrīmad Bhāgavatam? And the youth, how many have read Bhagavad-gītā?

The older people have read, but many of the younger people that I have met, they have not touched the Bhagavad Gītā. This is very unfortunate. But actually these two books are adequate to bring us to this spiritual, transcendental understanding. Then chant Hare Kṛṣṇa, worship Kṛṣṇa, feast on His prasādam; this is very simple but it is very powerful medicine.

Our Founder Ācārya, His Divine Grace Abhaycaran Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupad, he being empowered by Lord Caitanya, brought this message all over the world. He spread it all over the world. So when he proposed this system to the western people who are not very acquainted with Vedic culture, even they don’t find anything very complicated about singing Hare Kṛṣṇa and dancing and then feasting on the Kṛṣṇa vegetarian prasādam. They don’t find it very complicated. They are able to do it. And if you are very philosophically inclined, then you sit down and you discuss Śrīmad Bhāgavatam.

So just in conclusion, I would like to speak something about the other purposes for Lord Caitanya’s coming.

 

 

sva-mādhurya rādhā-prema-rasa āsvādite

rādhā-bhāva aṅgī kariyāche bhāla-mate (CC Adi 17.276)

 

Translation:

To taste the mellows of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī’s loving affairs in Her relationship with Kṛṣṇa, and to understand the reservoir of pleasure in Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Himself, as Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, accepted the mood of Rādhārāṇī.

Of course to understand this very esoteric purpose, we have to have a basic understanding who is Kṛṣṇa. You see, even the Upanishads, they glorify the brahmajyoti, the source of the spiritual effulgence, which is eternal and all pervasive. That this brahmajyoti is explained by the Śrīmad Bhāgavatam to be the first level of spiritual realization. That the Absolute Truth is realized in three features.

 

 

vadanti tat tattva-vidas

tattvaṁ yaj jñānam advayam

brahmeti paramātmeti

bhagavān iti śabdyate (SB 1.2.11)

 

That Brahman, Paramātmā and Bhagavān, these are the three features that the Absolute Truth is realized. Just like the first is the brahmajyoti, the second is realizing the Supersoul which is present in everyone’s heart.

When Bhishmadev was lying in the bed of arrows, at that time as  he was leaving his body, just as he was about to leave the world, he called for Kṛṣṇa to be present; he begged that Kṛṣṇa would be present. At that time the last thing he said before leaving his body is that “How Kṛṣṇa, You are present in everyone’s heart as the Paramātmā. And thus it is very hard to understand Your position.” Then he said, “That now I have understood that this Paramātmā is simply a plenary portion of Yourself.” Plenary portion means amsaprakaash. So Bhagavān or the Supreme personal form of the Absolute Truth, that is the ultimate realization. Bhagavān is the personal aspect of the Parabrahman, is the ultimate realization; it’s the  highest realization or complete realization. So Kṛṣṇa, He is always the Lord. Bhagavān is Parama Īśvara.

īśvaraḥ paramaḥ kṛṣṇaḥ

sac-cid-ānanda-vigrahaḥ

anādir ādir govindaḥ

Sarva-kāraṇa-kāraṇam (Bs. 5.1)

 So He is always worshipped as the Supreme Lord and Kṛṣṇa, He has various energies. Just as it is mentioned in the Śvetāśvatara Upanishad that there are various types of energies of the Supreme Lord. Those energies are into sat, cit and Ānanda. The eternal energy, the cognizance energy and the pleasure potency. Sat Shakti, Cit Shakti and Ānanda Shakti.

 

 

So Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī is the Ānanda Shakti. Or in other words, Kṛṣṇa expands Himself in these different energies and the energy of pure bhakti of Prema, of Ānanda, that is the form of Rādhā. So Kṛṣṇa, He is always accepting worship but He sees that His pure devotees, especially Rādhā, they are experiencing such a wonderful ecstasy by doing spontaneous loving devotional service for Him. But He is not experiencing this consciousness because His perspective is Iswara bhaav. So He doesn’t know what is the bhakta bhaav.

So one time He said, He want to know Himself what is that mood of devotion that My devotee is feeling for me. The only way He can know is  He has to become His own devotee. He is a very mysterious avatar! If you can understand the avatar of Caitanya Mahāprabhu, you will never take birth again in this material world. And you will achieve spontaneous love for Godhead. This is a promise of the great devotees.

So Caitanya Mahāprabhu is actually Kṛṣṇa who has taken on the color of His greatest devotee, Rādhā, the golden color and He has also taken on Her mood of devotion. Someone may say well, why Kṛṣṇa bhakti? Why not Nārāyaṇa bhakti or Vishnu bhakti or some other bhakti? Because Nārāyaṇa, He is also the expansion from Kṛṣṇa. Only the form of Kṛṣṇa can invoke the highest sentiment of the spontaneous loving devotion for the residents of Vṛndāvan, especially the gopīs. For instance, there is a history that one time the gopīs were looking for Kṛṣṇa. And then they saw that there Kṛṣṇa is sitting, He is sitting in the distance. So they ran to where Kṛṣṇa was sitting. So Kṛṣṇa, He couldn’t hide, He was spotted, He was exposed. So what can He do? So suddenly He changed His form! And He manifested the Nārāyaṇa form with four arms. Shanka, chakra, gāḍha, padma. So when the gopīs came they saw, “Oh! It is not Kṛṣṇa, it is Nārāyaṇa!” So they offered their respectful obeisances,”Oh Nārāyaṇa, Lord of Vaikuṇṭha, please accept our obeisances! Kindly tell us where is our beloved Kṛṣṇa with peacock feather in His hair, with His three-fold bending form and His beautiful flute? We are looking for Him.” You see, residents of Vṛndāvan, they weren’t satisfied, they had Nārāyaṇa there! They are asking where is Kṛṣṇa? We want Kṛṣṇa! Kṛṣṇa inspired that loving sentiment in their hearts. So of course it was Kṛṣṇa who had taken the Nārāyaṇa form. He said,”Go that way,” and they ran off looking for Kṛṣṇa! Ha! But then Śrīmatī Rādhā came and Her love was so intense for Kṛṣṇa that when She asked where is Kṛṣṇa? She was feeling such a viraha, such a separation. Her love is known as Mahabhaav or greatest form of pure love. So then Kṛṣṇa wanted to keep His four handed form and fool Rādhārāṇī. But because She is personally the Hlādinī Shakti, the Ānanda Shakti, Her love is so intense, He could not keep His four arms ther. His two arms disappeared and He repeatedly showed His two armed form. He could not even if He wanted to disguise His identity, so strong was Rādhā’s love.

 

rādhā dekhi’ kṛṣṇa tāṅre hāsya karite

sei catur-bhuja mūrti cāhena rākhite (CC Adi 17.290)

lukāilā dui bhuja rādhāra agrete

bahu yatna kailā kṛṣṇa, nārila rākhite (CC Adi 17.291)

rādhāra viśuddha-bhāvera acintya prabhāva

ye kṛṣṇere karāilā dvi-bhuja-svabhāva (CC Adi 17.292)

This a quote from Ujjwala Nīlamaṇi that also states that Kṛṣṇa, He couldn’t hide Himself. So Kṛṣṇa, He became attracted that what is this bhakti Shakti that My devotees have? I want to understand it Myself. So therefore that son of Nanda Maharaj, that same Kṛṣṇa, He came as Caitanya Mahāprabhu, as devotee, as His experiment you can say, as a research into His own devotion. So that is the inner purpose of Lord Caitanya’s coming.

 

So we would like to, because Nepal is known as the rooftop of the world, we would like them also to know the topmost of this Vedic understanding, this most secret of all secrets. This avatar of Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya Mahāprabhu reveals the confidential subject matter of the Vedic literatures. It reveals the secret of what is actually Kṛṣṇa Prema and how can we achieve it in this lifetime. So when we worship Lord Caitanya as the Vedas predicted, He comes with associates, saṅga panga aastra paarshadam, we also worship Him along with His companions, His associates.

So we chant the name of Lord Caitanya plus the name of Nityānanda. Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya Advaita Nityānanda Śrīvas Gadādhara aadi jotho bhakta Vṛndā. So we chant these fiver personalities’ names. Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya is Kṛṣṇa Himself coming down for all the purposes that I mentioned. Just like when Kṛṣṇa came, Balarām came. So with Kṛṣṇa this time, Balarām also came; He came as Nityānanda. Mahavishnu also came; He came as Advaita Gosāi. So Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya Prabhu Nityānanda Śrī Advaita, these are three avatars. Gadādhara is the incarnation of Rādhā or the internal potency. In this pastime She is coming to assist the Lord in His research on His own devotion. And Śrīvas is Nārada Muni who has come down to also assist the Lord. I would like you all to repeat this Pancha Tattva Mantra; it is very purifying.

 śrī-kṛṣṇa-caitanya prabhu nityānanda

śrī-advaita gadādhara śrīvāsādi-gaura-bhakta-vṛnda

 Hare Kṛṣṇa Hare Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa Hare Hare,

Hare Rāma Hare Rāma Rāma Rāma Hare Hare!

(Mahārāja sings with devotees repeating)